My name is Joshua Mackin. I teach 9th and 10th grade ELA at Bread & Roses Integrated Arts High School in Harlem. My life began, screaming & crying, in a warm hospital room in downtown Manila, Philippines. I lived there (in the country, not the hospital room) for 12 years before I moved to the United States in the summer of 1998. The move occasioned a resurgence of screaming & crying & much tortured teenage soul-searching.
High school and college were spent in rural Pennsylvania among trembling heads of corn and the occasional Amish buggy. I studied English at Messiah College with a concentration in Creative Writing and, upon graduation, spent a year working in the world of international conferencing, based in Orlando, FL.
After one (thankfully) brief stint of aimless twentysomething wandering into a job at Starbucks, I was led, like a lamb to the slaughter, to Teach for America. Somehow I suckered a woman to join me and we married at the combined age of 46 in August 2009.
High school and college were spent in rural Pennsylvania among trembling heads of corn and the occasional Amish buggy. I studied English at Messiah College with a concentration in Creative Writing and, upon graduation, spent a year working in the world of international conferencing, based in Orlando, FL.
After one (thankfully) brief stint of aimless twentysomething wandering into a job at Starbucks, I was led, like a lamb to the slaughter, to Teach for America. Somehow I suckered a woman to join me and we married at the combined age of 46 in August 2009.
We enjoy cooking.